Nimrod’s writing his great book Being and something, capital S. You know, in the tradition: Being and Time, Being and Nothingness, Being and Event. Some six hundred page opus.
So what’s it going to be: Being and what?
How about space – Being and Space. No one’s done that. A gap in the market.
Sloterdijk has. That’s what the Spheres trilogy is.
But it’s not called Being and Space, is it?
How about Being and Evil? That’s a title you could work with.
Being is evil – that’s what Cicero would say. That’s what she – or her doppelganger – was just saying on X.
Nimrod’s book is supposed to effect the great synthesis. Bringing together European and analytic philosophy. Heal the breach. Turn analytic philosophy from technocracy and European philosophy from endless textual commentary.
Sounds like Being and Bollocks.
And it’s supposed to be the fulfilment of philosophy. That will take theory into practice. Like, once and for all. Nimrod’s looking for the northwest passage between the most abstruse philosophy and politics. That will lead us from the study to the streets.
Definitely Being and Bollocks. That’s impossible …
Being and the Messiah: that’s what I’d write. Or maybe Being and Messianism.
Come on, the Messiah’s otherwise than being – everyone knows that.
That’d be the point!
You should call it Being Versus Messiah.
Work in Progress 